Counting timepiece device

Abstract

A method for operating a counting device (90), such as a countdown device, or a timepiece movement (100) or a timepiece (200), the method including performing a first action on a first control member (C1) causing a first timepiece function to be returned to an initial state, and then performing a second action on the first control member (C1) causing an action of adjusting or winding a second timepiece function.

1 . A method of operating a counting device, the method comprising:
 performing a first action on a first control member causing a first timepiece function to be returned to an initial state, and then   performing a second action on the first control member causing an action of adjusting or winding a second timepiece function.   
     
     
         2 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the first timepiece function and the second timepiece function are a single timepiece function. 
     
     
         3 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the first function is a timing function or a chronograph function. 
     
     
         4 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the adjusting or winding action is an incremental and/or sequential action. 
     
     
         5 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein any second action on the first control member while the first timepiece function is returned to an initial state causes an action of adjusting or winding the second timepiece function. 
     
     
         6 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the first action is a pressing action on the first control member and/or wherein the second action is a pressing action on the first control member. 
     
     
         7 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein third actions on a second control member cause the first timepiece function to be sequentially activated and deactivated. 
     
     
         8 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the first timepiece function is a chronograph function displaying a first item of information and a second item of information, and wherein a fourth action on the first control member while the first timepiece function is in an activation state causes a display of the second item of information to return to an initial state and a display of the first information to be set to a closest full item of information. 
     
     
         9 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the first action causes:
 a control lever to pivot,   pivoting of the control lever causing a hammer to act on a mobile for returning to a starting position, and   the hammer releasing a locking lever so that the locking lever is placed in a locking position locking the hammer in interacting position in which the hammer interacts with the mobile for returning to the starting position and releases an incrementing pawl.   
     
     
         10 . The method as claimed in  claim 9 , wherein the second action causes:
 the control lever to pivot,   the control lever causing the incrementing pawl to move so that the incrementing pawl interacts with an incrementing mobile in order to make the incrementing mobile rotate by one pitch.   
     
     
         11 . The method as claimed in  claim 9 , wherein a third action on a second control member cause the first timepiece function to be sequentially activated and deactivated, and wherein, while the first timepiece function is in an initial state, the third action causes:
 a control cam to rotate by one pitch,   rotation of the control cam causing the locking lever to pivot so that the locking lever is placed in an unlocking position in which the locking lever unlocks the hammer and deactivates the incrementing pawl,   unlocking of the hammer causing the hammer to return to a non-interacting position in which the hammer does not interact with the incrementing mobile for returning to the starting position.   
     
     
         12 . A counting device comprising hardware arranged and configured to implement the method as claimed in  claim 1 . 
     
     
         13 . The counting device as claimed in  claim 12 , wherein the hardware comprise:
 a first control member,   a second control member,   a control cam,   an incrementing pawl,   a hammer,   a locking lever,   a mobile for returning to the starting position, and   an incrementing mobile.   
     
     
         14 . The counting device as claimed in  claim 13 , wherein the hardware comprise a control lever and wherein the first control member interacts with the control lever, the control lever being able to act on the hammer and on the incrementing pawl and/or wherein the second control member is arranged so as to act on the control cam. 
     
     
         15 . A timepiece comprising the counting device as claimed in  claim 12 . 
     
     
         16 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the counting device is part of a timepiece movement. 
     
     
         17 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the counting device is a countdown device. 
     
     
         18 . The method as claimed in  claim 17 , wherein the first function is a countdown function. 
     
     
         19 . The method as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the third actions are pressing actions. 
     
     
         20 . The method as claimed in  claim 8 , wherein the first timepiece function is a countdown function and the first item of information is minutes information and the second item of information is seconds information, and wherein the fourth action is a fourth pressing action.